Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
Made refried pinto beans with just salt, bacon grease, and a pastry blender. Realized that consistency really does matter — it makes it more smooth. Next time get an immersion blender. Also learned that there is more to really good beans than just fat and salt. Next time, I ought to try this recipe: http://www.adn.com/2014/05/03/3454503/alaska-from-scratch-for-cinco.html […]
Pan fried fish use unhealthy amount of olive oil (2 tblsp?) and melt in 1 tblsp of butter. Bring to high heat in non-stick pan. wash fish. sprinkle with S&P on one side, place salted side down into hot oil. S&P other side of fish. turn fish over after fish starts to brown on […]
Basic Rice Pilaf First successful Isakeism flavored rice. 1 can chicken broth 1 1/3 cup of long grain enruched rice 1 tblsp bacon grease 1 tsp cumin seeds salt to taste toast rice in bacon grease. add in cumin seeds. boil in rice cooker with chicken broth and salt to taste.
20140221 Spaghetti bolognese recipe to try! http://www.cookscountry.com/recipes/6638-spaghetti-bolognese-for-two WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS: Authentic Bolognese sauce is slow-simmered for hours. The wait is worth it when you want to impress a table full of guests, but for our double serving size we wanted something quicker. We boosted the flavor fast by adding hearty pancetta, dried porcini mushrooms, […]
spaghetti notes 20140209 Made mushroom spaghetti and meatballs and spaghetti Learning more about spaghetti still — I proud of these two because I made them both in 30 minutes flat. Start ~3 quarts of water boiling, preheated oven to 400 F. start peeling garlic, I did 5 cloves, ~3 cloves would have been good. […]
20140208 white sandwich bread Made a couple of loaves of white bread today. I made the bread of top, the BLT is made with that bread in the middle, and the bottom pic is Grace’s bread — it has a crack because Grace didn’t score the bread. Her bread was more flavorful because she […]
20140206 white chocolate chip cookies Made white chocolate chip cookies, essentially following this recipe: http://cookiesandcups.com/the-best-white-chocolate-chip-cookies/ makes 36 cookies Ingredients 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 3 eggs 1 1/2 Tablespoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 2 1/2 […]
20140206 Made refried beans following the great reciple from simplyrecipes.com: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/refried_beans/ Very simple — soaked the beans for 4 hours, didn’t discard liquid, cooked in crock pot for many hours – 2-3 hrs? It was too late for me to finish it off, so I just put it in the fridge overnight, without draining the […]
botched saltines to biscuits So, once per day, in three consecutive days starting on Thursday 20140130, I made saltines-turned-bland-biscuits, nutty biscuits, and sweet biscuits. Following the success with the cheesy crackers, I wanted to turn my attention to non-cheesy crackers, starting with the humble saltine. I thought I was starting to get the hang of […]
cheesy crackers 3 Finally succeeded in making an actual cracker! Original post and first attempt here:baked cheese. After reading and standing on the shoulders of the trials of this writer: http://www.twincities.com/restaurants/ci_24521969/homemade-crackers-quest-crispy-crunchy-savory-snacks I decided to try rolling it again, this time, more thinly. It said that the thickness of the dough was the key difference between a […]